Determined to start over in New York, his sole focus is to climb the corporate ladder—no distractions.

Until one minor collision propels him into the path of small-town-girl but bombshell babe, Kendy Miller.

Kendy walks with a sass she was born with.

Single and ready to mingle, she’s on the prowl.

Moving from her tiny town of Bowlesville to work as a nurse at New York Cornell Hospital, she is introduced to Dr. Hot Pants.

She feels it in her bones—he only belongs to her.

When
Kendy formulates a grand scheme to land Dr. Hot Pants and uses Brian to
do it, Brian is all in because he could use a little fun.

Things were going to plan, until one night lines were crossed, kisses were exchanged and clothes flew off.

Fate collides, fortunes are tested and plans backfire, but Kendy is still determined to land her doctor.

Problem is… Brian was only there to assist in the plot. Falling in love with the girl wasn’t part of THE SCHEME.

Mia Kayla is a New Adult/Contemporary Romance writer who
lives in Illinois. On the weekdays, she can be caught wearing a suit, commuting
to her corporate job in downtown Chicago and raising three beautiful munchkins
in the suburbs, four if you count the husband.

In her free time she loves reading romance novels, jamming to
boy bands, catching up on celebrity gossip and designing flowers for weddings.

Most of the time, she can
be caught on the train with her nose in a book sporting a cheeky grin because
the main characters finally get their happily-ever-after at the end.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Following an accident injuring her dad, twenty-four
year old Leigh Storm returns home to the town she was once so desperate to
escape.

It is only a matter of hours before she runs into
Max 'Manwhore' Morgan. Dark eyed and
dangerous to her heart, he is the very last person she wants to see. It might
have been four years since she saw him last, but there's no denying the
chemistry between them is as potent as ever. Max makes it clear he isn't about
to let her run again, even if he is the one thing Leigh vowed to herself she
would never date: a street racer.

After racing tore apart her own family and left a
path of destruction in its wake, Leigh decided long ago that it is not the life
she wants for herself. But when a wager gone wrong threatens her dad's
livelihood, Leigh must go against everything she believes in.

This time there's more at stake on the quarter mile
that just the family business-She's risking her heart as well.

Jenny Siegel writes new adult
romance. When she's not writing (or entertaining two little terrors) Jenny is
glued to her Kindle, or plotting (also known as daydreaming) about hot tattooed
heroes that will sweep a girl off her feet.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Wow. Roman...he's a hot headed biker who has done time behind bars and all the while his former squeeze, Sally, has been hiding something pretty important....their son. While he never meant to get entangled with any woman, she has captured him and like many men, he just doesn't know what to do with himself and neither does she since she has feelings for him as well. But, danger is coming quickly and it threatens everyone in the Grizzlies MC along with Sally and the baby. Roman is driven to keep them safe, but messes up time and again while trying to do the right thing. But one thing is undeniable: there is some explosive chemistry between the two of them that burns just as hot as when they met two years before.
As someone who is a fan of Sons of Anarchy, I found this book to be equally entertaining. THIS BOOK IS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES! That being said, I don't normally go for books with erotica of any kind in it, but it was the story line that held the interest for me, and it was a very good one. However, I was extremely frustrated with Roman for at least half of the book with his meat head attitude when it came to Sally not telling him about his son. Of course things do get better. If they hadn't, I might have thrown my kindle out a window. And Sally is one tough woman. She is one to admire.

Great read! I would put this one as a 5 out of 5 stars!

Blurb:

SALLY

He's going to kill me when he finds out. I should've left Roman behind after our unforgettable fling two summers ago. I wasn't supposed to end up having his kid, always looking over my shoulder for the last man in the world meant to be a father.

But danger has a funny way of betraying a woman's best kept secrets, and reigniting old flames that should've died on a hot summer night.

Now, he's hellbent on claiming me in all the explosive ways that make my heart stop and my head spin. I'm losing it, or maybe just my panties. Every single pair.

An arranged marriage with the Grizzlies MC's biggest badass? I shouldn't want this so bad...

ROMAN

Forgive and forget? F*ck no.

I tried like hell to push her away, spent every waking minute on whores and booze. Then I found out what she'd hidden, and I lost my damned mind.

Sally's lies stole more years off my life than prison did. She owes me big. I'm taking her for payment, and I don't care what she's got to say about wearing my brand.

No chick makes a fool outta me. And I'm not fooling when I tell her I'll get my perfect wife, even if we're faking it all the way to the altar.

Give me a week. I'll conquer her spitfire tongue and remind her what it's like to ache desire. I'm not stopping 'til her lips are on mine, making her squirm the way she used to, begging me for more...

The Outlaw Love books are stand alone romance novels featuring unique lovers and happy endings. No cliffhangers! This is Roman and Sally's story in the Grizzlies MC series.

When Ana revealed her suspicions to Jackson about the circumstances surrounding his father’s death, she never expected it to be the catalyst for a series of events that could change everything. It was supposed to save him, not push him away. But now Ana is left watching the person she loves more than anything, lose himself to vengeance.
Jackson has spent most of his life loyal to the man he calls Uncle. But since learning that Marcus Donohue might have been responsible for the death of his father, Jackson is consumed with the need for revenge. Even if it means hurting the people he loves, and going against everything he believes in, to uncover what happened.
Will the truth finally set Jackson free or will it ruin his last chance at happiness with Ana… and a life out from under the shadows of the Donohues?
Tribulations will be overcome, truths will be revealed. Welcome to Chastity Falls.

Swoon worthy and heart stopping New Adult Romance.
L.A is author of the Fate’s Love Series and Chastity Falls Series. Home is a small town in the middle of England where she currently juggles being a full-time mum to two little people with writing. In her spare time (and when she’s not camped out in front of the laptop) you’ll most likely find L. A immersed in a book, escaping the chaos that is life.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

For those of you who are fans of Indiana Jones and action, this is one for you to pick up and check it out. Chase is a former military guy turned mercenary who is looking for the big payout. He doesn't have a woman to tie him down so being a mercenary is his life. When the opportunity comes along for some big money, he takes it. The job takes him to the jungles of Papua, New Guinea where dangers lurk around every corner. And unfortunately there are two other mercenaries following him who also want the bounty so they can retire from the business. This married couple, Samson and Naomi, are very dangerous and willing to go great lengths to secure the bounty. The job is to find a certain plant that could change the face of cancer research. While the mercenaries are there for the money, the guy who employed Chase is there to try and save his dying father.
This is a fast-paced book but an interesting adventure no doubt! Some of the things Chase encountered made me cringe a little! I won't divulge what they were. Don't want to give away all the good parts. What I can tell you is that out of all of the characters in the book, I just couldn't find it in my heart to like Naomi at all. Just couldn't. She has quite the mean streak.

Here is a little quote for y'all!

"Let's just agree that we are much better off not being on that plane when it lands."

Blurb:

When a research team suddenly goes missing in the deep jungles of Papua New Guinea, highly-skilled mercenary Chase “Ace” Dumbar is hired to investigate. During the research team’s last transmission it’s revealed they discovered an extremely potent medicinal plant with extraordinary cancer fighting qualities, but a crazed native tribe worships and guards the plant as a sacred object. Making matters worse, an active volcano stands to obliterate the research team, and the invaluable plant any day. Chase must navigate the jagged clutches of the jungle, rescue the research team and escape before the menacing volcano decimates the area.

Hot in pursuit are additional mercenaries looking to secure a million dollar bounty put out by another pharmaceutical company that caught wind of the plant’s potential to cure cancer. Among them is an estranged war buddy, Samson Treveski, and his deadly knife-assassin wife, Naomi. Samson’s been crossed by Chase one to many times, and he’s eager to even the score.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

When I started reading this book, I was expecting something very different than this. When I think of anything with the word "clone" in it, I immediately come to the conclusion of something more in the way of robotic than something so completely human, which is what you find in this book. The world has been destroyed and completely back-peddled in this Lord of the Flies type book. Kids are in charge of pretty much everything. Why? Because once you reach a certain age The Sick takes you and you either die or you come out trying to eat everything around you, sort of like a zombie. But there are different types of these man-eaters on the loose where Clone 3 finds herself. Frankly, this is not a world I could ever even envision having to live in. It's hard and the children are just accepting of the fact because it is all that they know. They beat and kill each other mercilessly and live in groups like gangs with a leader.
Clone 3 has some sort of strange mission and she remembers nothing about how she ended up where she did or what the mission is beyond some glimpses in her memories that she keeps getting sporadically. The world she remembers is far different than this one. What she does know is that she needs to find the other two clones out there. Her journey is a difficult and dangerous one. Kids want to use her for her strange abilities and most are not nice at all, which she finds out the hard way more than once. But she does find some friends along the way and in this book her journey is just beginning.

I would give this one a 5 out of 5 stars!!

Blurb:She must risk everything. She must remember. She must survive.

Clone Three wakes in a decaying city she is sure doesn't match the one she came from. If only she could remember. She has a purpose at least--she must find her fellow clones and the statue whose image is embedded in her mind. But she is lost, surrounded by a dead and crumbling metropolis, fought over by the survivors of an illness that has ravaged humankind.

She must risk everything, including the safety of those who try to help her, in order to fulfill her task.

Following an accident injuring her dad, twenty-four
year old Leigh Storm returns home to the town she was once so desperate to
escape.

It is only a matter of hours before she runs into
Max 'Manwhore' Morgan. Dark eyed and
dangerous to her heart, he is the very last person she wants to see. It might
have been four years since she saw him last, but there's no denying the
chemistry between them is as potent as ever. Max makes it clear he isn't about
to let her run again, even if he is the one thing Leigh vowed to herself she
would never date: a street racer.

After racing tore apart her own family and left a
path of destruction in its wake, Leigh decided long ago that it is not the life
she wants for herself. But when a wager gone wrong threatens her dad's
livelihood, Leigh must go against everything she believes in.

This time there's more
at stake on the quarter mile that just the family business-She's risking her
heart as well.

Jenny Siegel writes new adult
romance. When she's not writing (or entertaining two little terrors) Jenny is
glued to her Kindle, or plotting (also known as daydreaming) about hot tattooed
heroes that will sweep a girl off her feet.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

There will be a live interview with Barbara Devlin on Monday July 6th at 8 p.m. CST (6 p.m. pacific, 7 p.m. mountain, 9 p.m. eastern)!! Be sure to stop by Clarice's Book Nook's Facebook page and say hi, ask questions, and comment!

But what’s beneath the cape? Behind the mask? Under the steel-plated façade?

Eight bestselling New Adult romance authors have come together to bring you seven stories about superheroes and what it takes to win their hearts. From the skies, to the cities, to the ocean, our superheroes face death, fight villains, conquer evil and—Find love.

The world is full of heroes. Every-day men and women who risk their lives for the sake of others—for life, liberty, freedom, and justice. Often these men and women are wounded—physically or mentally—in the line of duty. Therefore, we have created this anthology with the sole purpose of benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project.Because heroes should never be forgotten.

The stories:

Reaping Angels by Laura Thalassa:The Executioner’s touch can kill.Angel’s can heal.A villain and a hero. One who stood for death, and the other for life. Mortal enemies until the impossible happened.A touch.A kiss.And now, a manhunt.

Cat Love by Sunniva Dee:A sexy thriller about the animal in all of us.Aidan uses his superpower to stabilize minds at the Hollyreed Specialist Hospital. Ulani uses hers to chase rats on rooftops. Until she’s caught and deposited in Aidan’s care.At the hospital, Aidan finds Ulani's room empty—save for a cat, whose fur retracts in favor of silky skin and a vamp-gorgeous femme fatale.Aidan’s obsession with Ulani grows, while patients go missing.Making the couple use their powers to bring criminals to justice.

Gypsy Love by Angela McPherson & Lynn Vroman:For two hundred years, Adrian vowed to seek revenge against the Gypsy woman who bound his spirit for eternity.Until her.The one man Mia wants only exists in dreams.Until he doesn’t.The curse may be broken, but not without a price.One love must end for another to begin.

The Only Difference by Magan Vernon:The Only Difference between a hero and a villain is what they do with their power.Leonel "Short Stack" Garcia-Shapiro's life changed the night he decided to stop one of his fraternity brothers from taking advantage of a girl. Now he can't stop thinking of that girl and how he can save her.

Heroes by Christine Zolendz:Kelly Black can’t believe she’ll be the new teaching assistant to Alexander Masters. The Alexander Masters—the head of the entire biology department. As soon as they begin to work together sparks fly and danger swirls around them.

Breaking Through by D. Nichole King:Two years after her brother Nate died during a Navy operation, aquator Nautia Olson’s nightmares began, and her ability to manipulate water became erratic. Anger, fear, joy, desire—they all trigger disaster.Now, the Navy wants her for a top-secret mission, but Captain Riley Barton has his reservations. He’s read her file. He knows the damage she’s capable of, and yet—If he can harness her ability—break through her walls—She’ll be unstoppable.

Villain by Cheryl McIntyre:How can you tell a hero from a villain?If you’re Ember Willis and the villain is Lanely Frost, you can’t.How can you tell a superhero from a delusional young woman?If you’re Lanely Frost and the woman is Ember Willis, you don’t care.For both, finding the balance between right and wrong and love and lust are not the only battles they’ll face.

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